Catharine Hanaway will keynote the event. She is the first and only female Speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives, a former U.S. Attorney, and currently a partner in the Ashcroft Hanaway Law Firm in St. Louis.

All office holders and potential 2014 candidates are encouraged to attend and will be allotted time to address the group.

Tickets are priced at $25.00 per person. Checks should be made to Lafayette County Republicans and mailed to P.O. Box 42, Lexington, MO 64067.

If you are unable to attend but would like to support the local GOP and local candidates, please send your donation to the address above in care of Lafayette County Republicans.

Learn more about Catherine Hanaway's Professional History below. Currently, she is a partner in The Aschroft Hanaway Law Firm.

Catherine
Hanaway aggressively and successfully litigates complex civil and white collar
criminal cases, provides seasoned and reliable legislative strategic advice,
represents clients with thorny regulatory challenges and crafts messages for
customers and the public when a client is facing a difficult public opinion
dilemma.

In
private practice, Catherine has represented clients with energy, regulatory,
banking and securities law issues. She represented industrial users of power,
opposing the first-ever hostile takeover in the public utilities industry
before the Missouri Public Service Commission and the Kansas Corporation
Commission. As outside counsel to the RTC, Catherine worked to recover millions
during the last major financial crisis to rock the nation.

As
U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, Catherine personally
successfully tried cases to jury verdicts, supervised more than 4,000 cases and
a staff of over 100. During her tenure, the office set records for the most
cases tried and money forfeited. She led major expansions of the office’s
prosecution of nursing home abuses, child exploitation, health care fraud and
sophisticated white collar crimes – including securities and bank frauds. She
created a Mortgage Fraud Task Force that prosecuted at every level from
borrower to those upstreaming bad loans into the asset-backed securities
markets.

As
the first and only woman to serve as Speaker of the Missouri House of
Representatives, Catherine held the line against tax increases proposed by the
Governor, balanced the budget in an economic downturn, reformed the state’s
corporate laws and passed innovative economic development tools. Catherine led
Republicans to a majority victory in November 2002, after serving as the
Minority Leader of the Missouri House of Representatives. Catherine also served
on the staff of U.S. Senator Kit Bond.

Catherine
joins the team of outstanding lawyers and professionals at the Ashcroft Group
whom she has seen face the nation’s most complicated legal challenges with
integrity, skill, and success. Catherine and her husband, Christopher, live in
St. Louis County with their daughter, Lucy, and son, Jack.